Sorrow-ridden
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sorrow-ridden is an adjective meaning Filled with sorrow or sorrows.
Meaning
Filled with sorrow or sorrows.
Example Sentences
Huddled in the stern of the boat she sat with her baby strained close to her bosom, and because of that little, tender, helpless thing she was happier tonight than she had been for many a sorrow-ridden day.
In two great palaces, from his father’s now middle-aged fellow-warriors king Nestor at Pylos and king Menelaus in Sparta, he hears accounts of the Greek armies’ gale-blown, sorrow-ridden return from the fall of Troy.
[…] Miss Terry is as unconvincing as the least known member of her company. She is Kniertje, a fisherman’s widow, one who has already dearly paid the sea, but she does not for one brief instant suggest the sorrow-ridden fisherman’s widow; she appears to be only acting the part.
Synonyms for sorrow-ridden
Depending on context, synonyms include sorrowful, sorrowsome, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sorrowsome, sadful, tearful, doleful, sorrowful, mournful.
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